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Richard Dawkins: The Greatest Show on Earth

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guyinsfca
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Posted: 10.09.09, 10:40 PM
i was question 1 ... my 15 min .... the shirt he made a comment on was the 'Scarlet Letter - A' T-shirts from his OUT Campaign.
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farber2
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Posted: 10.25.09, 07:28 AM
when evolution began might be debated, but evolution is happening right now, it's not debatable. ever see a ball game? did the winner of the ball game go on to the play offs? this is survival of the fitest. it is right there in front of you. when ever you think people began, they started evolving right then.
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anselmiano
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Posted: 10.25.09, 03:25 PM
So now Darwinians resent being asked to show the intermediate forms predicted by their theory?! That's heading in the unscientific direction of asking us to just take their word for it. And asking "why are we here" a silly question? It is one of the most fundamental questions of philosophy! The fact that atheists like Dawkins have only meaninglessness and pointlessness to offer for an answer doesn't mean that it is a "silly" question. Not asking it is what is in fact not just silly but deeply shallow.
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InVinoVeritas
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Posted: 10.25.09, 09:15 PM
Dawkins is little more than a playground provocateur with a clever-sounding accent. Agnosticism is a rational and intellectually honorable tradition. Hard atheism, on the other hand, is every bit as fantastical and dishonest as fundamentalist religion. The atheists don't know, the fundamentalists don't know. They both act like they do and are equally presumptuous in their pretensions.

"Ditchkins" - as the eminent English Marxist theorist Terry Eagleton calls the trinity of atheist poseurs - miss the point entirely. "Believing that religion is a botched attempt to explain the world . . . is like seeing ballet as a botched attempt to run for a bus."
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underbelly
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Posted: 10.25.09, 09:38 PM
aselmiano... the WHY question... I think Dawkins may have found so much enrichment and enlightenment in his life-long persuit of the HOW questions of life, that the question "WHY?" simply never comes up. ie. there is no doubt underlying his fundamental understanding of the universe.
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underbelly
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Posted: 10.25.09, 09:45 PM
InVinoVeritas... if you see religion as such a beautiful thing as ballet, then your subjectivity might be colouring your analogies. I'm not saying religion isn't beautiful; in the same sense that Picasso's Guernica is beautiful
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Aaberg
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Posted: 10.26.09, 12:24 PM
InVinoVeritas.

Analogies can only help explain something in a simplified manner, never bring proof themselves.
Bring your proof, then we'll debate it.

Ps. Dawkins is as agnostic about God, as you are agnostic about Zeus. That should explain his position pretty well.
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Rossco65
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Posted: 10.26.09, 11:00 PM
Yes, intelligent, erudite people can seem that way to the dull and ignorant.
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maximus444
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Posted: 10.27.09, 09:15 AM
"That's heading in the unscientific direction of asking us to just take their word for it."
Dude I think what hes trying to say is the people that constantly say "Show us the intermediate fossils" don't bother looking for themselves. Thousands of these fossils are in museums everywhere if people want to see them and I'd recommend taking the trouble to view them because their quite spectacular and humbling.

"It is one of the most fundamental questions of philosophy!"

Philosophy can be described as trying to answer the questions that can't be answered...among other things of course.

Personally I think its a question most of us ask ourselves at some stage in our lives but that doesn't give it any legitimacy empirically.
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Selfish Charity
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Posted: 10.27.09, 02:04 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by joanieohio
He's quite the smug little twirp, isn't he?
You should be ashamed of yourself woman. Have you no care for the truth?
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